What Is The Difference Between Portulaca Oleracea And Bacopa Monnieri?

 

Bacopa monnieri extract, whose main chemical components are triterpenoid saponins, has effects on the nervous, digestive and circulatory systems, including antimemetic, sedative, memory-enhancing, antiepileptic and anxiolytic effects.

 

Traditionally used for memory enhancement, sedation, antiepileptic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic, in recent years, preclinical studies have confirmed that bacopa monnieri has the effect of improving cognitive function, and it is mostly used in cosmetics for the care of sensitive skin.

 

The main chemical components of Bacopa monnieri are bacopa monnieri saponin A and bacopa monnieri saponin B. Saponin A is the left-handed form and saponin B is the right-handed form.

 

They have biological activities such as modulation of the cholinergic system, enhancement of cognitive and memory functions, as well as sedative anxiolytic and anticonvulsant. In addition, there are anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, cardiotonic, and antioxidant bioactivities.

 

 

 

 

Portulaca oleracea is one of the 101 species of wild plants with the same origin of medicine and food in China, which is widely distributed in the north and south of the Yangtze River in China, as well as in Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Central Europe and other parts of the world.

 

As a kind of medicinal and food plant, it is rich in alkaloids, terpenoids, flavonoids, organic acids, volatile oils and polysaccharides, etc.

 

It has the functions of lowering blood glucose and blood lipids, preventing cardiovascular diseases, enhancing human immunity, anti-allergic, antibacterial, antiviral, anti-aging, anti-tumor, and anti-atherosclerosis, etc. It is also used as a medicinal and food plant.

 

Portulaca extract is rich in polysaccharides and flavonoids with broad-spectrum antibacterial properties, which have good inhibitory effects on common bacteria and fungi.

 

Adding it to cosmetics can reduce the amount of bacteriostatic agents and preservatives, and has a strong scavenging effect on a variety of free radicals in the human body, so it is seen in whitening and anti-aging cosmetics.

 

 

 

 

1. Different toxicity and consumption methods
Portulaca oleracea is non-toxic, as long as attention is paid to the taboos of consumption, no matter whether it is a vegetable or as a traditional Chinese medicine, it can be safely consumed.

 

Bacopa monnieri has microtoxicity, as eating too much may appear toxic phenomenon, so basically used for medicinal purposes, not recommended as a vegetable.

 

2. Differences in efficacy and potency

Portulaca oleracea is acidic and cold in nature, belonging to the liver meridian and the large intestine meridian, and is a common traditional Chinese herb with the functions of clearing away heat and inducing dampness, eliminating inflammation and quenching thirst, and inducing diuresis.

 

It is commonly used by traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the treatment of feverish dysentery and pus and blood, feverish gonorrhea, dengtongue poisoning, boils, swellings, and malignant sores.

 

Bacopa monnieri extract powder, most notably for improving cognitive and memory functions, as well as sedative and anti-anxiety and anticonvulsant and antiepileptic, is a popular herb in Ayurvedic medicine in India and is mainly used to improve memory and to treat mental and epileptic disorders.

 

3. Differences in appearance
Portulaca oleracea has light green or dark reddish branches with thick short petioles, alternate or subopposite leaves, and yellow flowers.

 

Bacopa monnieri's branches are only green, no petiole, the leaves are arranged in an opposite way, and the flowers are blue, purple or white.

 

4. Different growing places
Portulaca oleracea generally grows in China's north and south temperate or tropical areas, mostly born in vegetable gardens, farmland, roadsides.

 

Bacopa monnieri generally grows in Guangdong, Fujian and other tropical areas, mostly born in the waterfront, wetlands and sandy beaches.

 

 

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